“the people who enabled 2021 definitely will NOT fix things.
Do you disagree?”
I don’t disagree with that. Trump is too naive about people, and trusts too easily. He needs a few advisors with strong BS meters.
He isn’t naive about people.
In 2016, Trump had little experience in Washington politics, and had to depend on people who knew it to chart a course.
The fact that his administration opened the eyes of many to just how far the Deep State/Swamp/Blob extended in American politics is a reminder of that.
Barr is one example. Wray is another. But perhaps the best example is Gina Haspel, the current CIA Director.
To answer the question “Who suggested Gina Haspel to head up the CIA?” is to understand the scope of that specific problem. Because Gina Haspel is NOT MAGA, not even on the side of Trump or his Administration. She is, in my opinion, an outright, hostile enemy of Trump. She was the CIA Station Chief in London during March-May 2016, when Brennan’s CIA was engaging foreign intelligences to “bump” people associated with Trump as an excuse to elevate intelligence “chatter” on them, and enable the FBI to obtain FISA warrants to surveil them...for political purposes.
As the Station Chief in London at the peak of this, it would be asinine to even think she was uninvolved in this. Of course, nobody knew this then (outside of the cabal).
But we know it now.
Trump would have no way of knowing this. So he had to depend on someone who knew that landscape to get a recommendation, in the same way any successful Chief Executive would. Who was that? Who recommended her to succeed Brennan? (Who besides John Brennan, Leon Panetta, Michael Morell, Michael Hayden, and of course, James Clapper)
Nobody knows. But someone did. And perhaps Trump did not know then that every single one of those people who supported the nomination of Gina Haspel had been working feverishly behind the scenes to frame him up in some fashion by spying on him to search for something to put into the media.
The same people who fault Trump specifically for this pick (and other picks in general) are often the same people who denigrate General Michael Flynn for meeting with FBI agents without White House counsel present, where he naively assumed they were all on the same team working to solve a problem that could harm the country, instead of knowing the FBI deliberately set Flynn up so that they could find a way, in orchestration with the media, to eliminate him.
So, yes. Trump was inexperienced in his first term, and probably had no idea of the Deep State evil that existed, that it existed not to help America, but to help themselves and foreign interests. But people learn, and I sure trust President Trump to have learned from it in a way that you and I never will.